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Literature Nobel for Herta Mueller

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Herta Mueller

STOCKHOLM: Herta Mueller, a member of Romania’s ethnic German minority who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

Ms. Mueller was honoured for work that “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,” the Swedish Academy said.

Ms. Mueller, 56, made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories titled Niederungen. It depicted the harsh life in a small, German-speaking village in Romania. It was censored by the communist government. — AP

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